Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 79 51
Rank change year-on-year -38 -28 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,249 1,790 3,351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 3.60% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.91% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 842 1,031 2,716
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,747 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -14.01%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £121,125 £112,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,730 45,725 65,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 92.08% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,308 22,323 50,742
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,145 £77,500 +6.90% 548
London +8 650 £87,500 +2.94% 236
Work from Home -24 542 £75,000 +7.14% 352
UK excluding London -98 504 £70,000 +3.70% 397
North of England -38 226 £70,000 - 119
North West -16 116 £67,500 -1.82% 70
Yorkshire -36 90 £75,000 +4.18% 27
South East -117 90 £75,000 +11.11% 140
Midlands -29 62 £71,250 +9.62% 47
South West -67 59 £67,500 -1.50% 51
West Midlands -4 36 £70,000 +12.00% 33
East of England -11 32 £77,500 +34.78% 17
Scotland -76 27 £60,000 -19.86% 18
East Midlands -47 24 £68,000 +4.62% 14
North East -13 20 £70,000 +33.33% 22
Wales -3 7 £54,185 +22.19% 9
Northern Ireland -24 5 £62,500 +16.28% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 27 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.92%) Apache
4 21 (1.68%) Confluence
5 13 (1.04%) JBoss
5 13 (1.04%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.88%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.80%) CMS
8 7 (0.56%) Appian
8 7 (0.56%) IIS
9 5 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.40%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Liferay
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.080%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.080%) Strapi
Applications
1 19 (1.52%) Maya
2 16 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.72%) Endur
3 8 (0.64%) SAP FS
4 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.24%) Shopify
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.080%) Actimize
7 1 (0.080%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.080%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.080%) Quorum
7 1 (0.080%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.080%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 679 (54.36%) AWS
2 584 (46.76%) Azure
3 241 (19.30%) GCP
4 224 (17.93%) Serverless
5 173 (13.85%) SaaS
6 123 (9.85%) GitHub
7 113 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
8 93 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
9 91 (7.29%) Amazon S3
10 64 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
12 62 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
13 57 (4.56%) PaaS
14 52 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (3.04%) IaaS
17 37 (2.96%) Power Platform
18 35 (2.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.04%) HTTP
2 12 (0.96%) Broadband
3 9 (0.72%) AMQP
4 6 (0.48%) Internet
5 4 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.32%) SNMP
5 4 (0.32%) WAN
6 3 (0.24%) MQTT
6 3 (0.24%) Multicast
7 2 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.16%) Network Security
7 2 (0.16%) SSL
8 1 (0.080%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.080%) DHCP
8 1 (0.080%) DNS
8 1 (0.080%) Firewall
8 1 (0.080%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.080%) TCAP
8 1 (0.080%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (13.77%) NoSQL
2 157 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
3 136 (10.89%) MongoDB
4 124 (9.93%) SQL Server
5 66 (5.28%) DynamoDB
6 61 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 50 (4.00%) MySQL
8 49 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.64%) Redis
11 29 (2.32%) Big Data
12 23 (1.84%) Power BI
13 22 (1.76%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.68%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (1.44%) Tableau
16 14 (1.12%) DB2
17 12 (0.96%) Pinecone
18 10 (0.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 159 (12.73%) Git
2 115 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.96%) GitLab
4 52 (4.16%) JIRA
5 41 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 39 (3.12%) JUnit
7 37 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.88%) Selenium
9 25 (2.00%) Cypress.io
10 22 (1.76%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.76%) Mockito
11 21 (1.68%) CircleCI
12 19 (1.52%) JMeter
13 17 (1.36%) Maven
13 17 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.88%) Postman
15 10 (0.80%) Vite
16 9 (0.72%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.64%) git-flow
17 8 (0.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 378 (30.26%) Finance
2 370 (29.62%) Social Skills
3 141 (11.29%) Banking
4 111 (8.89%) Law
5 109 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 60 (4.80%) Retail
8 54 (4.32%) Financial Institution
9 48 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (3.44%) Games
11 42 (3.36%) Telecoms
12 38 (3.04%) Back Office
13 26 (2.08%) French Language
13 26 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (2.00%) Dutch Language
15 23 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.76%) Billing
17 18 (1.44%) Legal
18 17 (1.36%) Advertising
19 14 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 422 (33.79%) Developer
2 314 (25.14%) Senior
3 233 (18.65%) Architect
4 231 (18.49%) Software Engineer
5 166 (13.29%) Lead
6 115 (9.21%) Solutions Architect
7 112 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 105 (8.41%) Java Developer
9 103 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 92 (7.37%) .NET Developer
11 84 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 76 (6.08%) Java Engineer
13 50 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (3.92%) Lead Developer
15 46 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
16 44 (3.52%) Software Developer
17 43 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
18 41 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 40 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
20 37 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (24.58%) React
2 302 (24.18%) .NET
3 251 (20.10%) RESTful
4 222 (17.77%) Spring
5 213 (17.05%) REST
6 195 (15.61%) Spring Boot
7 186 (14.89%) Kafka
8 185 (14.81%) Node.js
9 135 (10.81%) AngularJS
10 112 (8.97%) .NET Core
11 83 (6.65%) HTML
12 74 (5.92%) .NET Framework
13 68 (5.44%) ASP.NET
14 63 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
15 61 (4.88%) CSS
15 61 (4.88%) Middleware
16 59 (4.72%) ASP.NET Web API
17 53 (4.24%) gRPC
18 50 (4.00%) Hibernate
19 48 (3.84%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 333 (26.66%) Cloud Native
2 192 (15.37%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (10.73%) Enterprise Software
4 106 (8.49%) Product Ownership
5 52 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.96%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.64%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.32%) Virtual Team
11 28 (2.24%) Blockchain
12 26 (2.08%) AI Agents
12 26 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
13 19 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.36%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.12%) IoT
16 14 (1.12%) Onboarding
17 13 (1.04%) Low-Code
18 12 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.16%) Linux
2 20 (1.60%) Android
2 20 (1.60%) Windows
3 11 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.40%) CentOS
4 5 (0.40%) Debian
4 5 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.080%) Fedora
6 1 (0.080%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (47.64%) CI/CD
2 575 (46.04%) Agile
3 503 (40.27%) DevOps
4 441 (35.31%) Software Engineering
5 319 (25.54%) Containerisation
6 303 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 269 (21.54%) Mentoring
7 269 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
8 252 (20.18%) AI
9 232 (18.57%) Event-Driven
10 217 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 209 (16.73%) Test Automation
12 201 (16.09%) Computer Science
13 159 (12.73%) Scrum
14 153 (12.25%) TDD
14 153 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
15 149 (11.93%) Roadmaps
16 147 (11.77%) Infrastructure as Code
17 142 (11.37%) Architectural Patterns
18 135 (10.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 435 (34.83%) Java
2 293 (23.46%) Python
3 282 (22.58%) SQL
4 278 (22.26%) C#
5 260 (20.82%) JavaScript
6 228 (18.25%) TypeScript
7 77 (6.16%) Go
8 29 (2.32%) PL/SQL
9 28 (2.24%) PHP
9 28 (2.24%) Shell Script
10 27 (2.16%) C++
11 26 (2.08%) Bash
11 26 (2.08%) C
12 20 (1.60%) Ruby
13 17 (1.36%) Scala
14 16 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.28%) Rust
15 13 (1.04%) PowerShell
16 10 (0.80%) Bicep
17 6 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 215 (17.21%) Degree
2 141 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 78 (6.24%) SC Cleared
5 67 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 54 (4.32%) Master's Degree
7 47 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 45 (3.60%) Azure Certification
9 38 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 33 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (1.04%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.88%) CISSP
13 10 (0.80%) CISM
14 9 (0.72%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.72%) PMP
15 6 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.33%) QA
2 25 (2.00%) GDPR
3 24 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 22 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.88%) NCSC
7 10 (0.80%) IFRS
7 10 (0.80%) NIST
8 9 (0.72%) SLA
9 8 (0.64%) EMIR
9 8 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 8 (0.64%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.32%) SEPA
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) WCAG
13 2 (0.16%) GRC
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 372 (29.78%) Docker
2 14 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.080%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 374 (29.94%) Kubernetes
2 217 (17.37%) Terraform
3 67 (5.36%) Grafana
4 50 (4.00%) Ansible
5 26 (2.08%) Kibana
6 25 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.12%) Argo
9 8 (0.64%) Puppet
10 5 (0.40%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.32%) Istio
11 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) Nagios
14 1 (0.080%) Cilium
14 1 (0.080%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 172 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.04%) Oracle
3 40 (3.20%) Google
4 19 (1.52%) Guidewire
4 19 (1.52%) OpenAI
4 19 (1.52%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.52%) SAP
5 16 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
5 16 (1.28%) Splunk
6 15 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
6 15 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.12%) Software AG
8 13 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 12 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 12 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.88%) Duck Creek
10 11 (0.88%) IBM
10 11 (0.88%) Palo Alto
11 10 (0.80%) Fortinet
11 10 (0.80%) Typelevel